EP2831562B1 - Procède de contrôle d'un paramètre d'ouvrabilite d'un béton dans un malaxeur - Google Patents

Procède de contrôle d'un paramètre d'ouvrabilite d'un béton dans un malaxeur Download PDF

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EP2831562B1
EP2831562B1 EP13722483.8A EP13722483A EP2831562B1 EP 2831562 B1 EP2831562 B1 EP 2831562B1 EP 13722483 A EP13722483 A EP 13722483A EP 2831562 B1 EP2831562 B1 EP 2831562B1
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Hélène LOMBOIS-BURGER
Christian Blachier
Cédric JUGE
Fabrice TOUSSAINT
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
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    • G01N11/00—Investigating flow properties of materials, e.g. viscosity, plasticity; Analysing materials by determining flow properties
    • G01N11/10—Investigating flow properties of materials, e.g. viscosity, plasticity; Analysing materials by determining flow properties by moving a body within the material
    • G01N11/14—Investigating flow properties of materials, e.g. viscosity, plasticity; Analysing materials by determining flow properties by moving a body within the material by using rotary bodies, e.g. vane
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B28—WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE
    • B28C—PREPARING CLAY; PRODUCING MIXTURES CONTAINING CLAY OR CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL, e.g. PLASTER
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    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N33/00—Investigating or analysing materials by specific methods not covered by groups G01N1/00 - G01N31/00
    • G01N33/38—Concrete; Lime; Mortar; Gypsum; Bricks; Ceramics; Glass
    • G01N33/383—Concrete or cement
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    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
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  • the present invention relates to a method for controlling at least one workability parameter, for example the slump, spreading, threshold stress, viscosity or flow time of a concrete in the tank of a mixer with non-vertical axis of rotation.
  • at least one workability parameter for example the slump, spreading, threshold stress, viscosity or flow time of a concrete in the tank of a mixer with non-vertical axis of rotation.
  • a concrete is a mixture of aggregates agglomerated with a binder and water.
  • the binder may be a hydraulic binder, for example cement. This is called cement concrete.
  • the binder can be a hydrocarbon binder, for example bitumen. This is called asphalt concrete.
  • the workability of concrete is the ease with which concrete can be handled.
  • the workability of a concrete can be characterized by the measurement of rheological parameters such as the threshold stress or the viscosity of the concrete or by the measurement of parameters resulting from usual tests carried out on the site use of concrete, such as slump, slump flow or flow time.
  • the slump can be measured according to the test described in European Standard NF EN 12350-2 of December 1999.
  • the measurement of rheological parameters usually requires specific measuring devices. It may be difficult to perform these measurements at the concrete site of use. On the contrary, sagging, spreading and flow time can easily be measured at the site of use of the concrete.
  • the patent US 5,713,663 discloses a method of indirectly measuring the slump of a concrete in the rotating tank of a spin truck from the driving torque applied to the tank.
  • the slump can then be adjusted by adding water or admixture to the concrete.
  • the engine torque can be determined from the measurement of the pressure of the hydraulic fluid supplied to the engine.
  • the sag is then determined by an empirical formula from the measured hydraulic pressure.
  • the method comprises a preliminary step of determining, for each concrete formulation that can be manufactured, the empirical formula representing the evolution of the slump of the concrete according to the hydraulic pressure.
  • An ordinary concrete corresponds to a concrete for which the slump is generally between 10 mm and 220 mm measured according to the European standard NF EN 12350-2 of December 1999.
  • the test consists in filling a reference cone frustum with the concrete to test, release the concrete from the truncated cone, then determine the height from which the concrete fell.
  • a fluid concrete is a concrete for which the sag is too important to be correctly measured by the test of the European standard NF EN 12350-2 of December 1999.
  • we can measure the spread which corresponds to the previous test to the difference is that the diameter of the concrete slab obtained after removal of the mold is measured according to the European standard NF EN 12350-8 of November 2010.
  • the flow time can also be measured according to the European standard NF EN 12350- 9 of November 2010 by pouring the concrete through a funnel and measuring the flow time of the concrete between two marks of the funnel.
  • the measuring method described in the patent US 5,713,663 is not suitable for fluid concretes. Indeed, for the fluid concretes, the slump / spreading of the concrete varies little according to the hydraulic pressure. It is therefore not possible to obtain an accurate measurement of the slump / spread of the concrete by measuring the hydraulic pressure according to the method of the patent US 5,713,663 .
  • Another disadvantage of such a measurement method is that it is necessary to determine the empirical formula representing the evolution of the slump of the concrete as a function of the hydraulic pressure for each concrete formulation that can be manufactured. As a result, the process can not be implemented when the concrete formulation is modified. It is then necessary to determine a new empirical formula for the new formulation.
  • Another disadvantage of such a measurement method is that it does not make it possible to measure concrete workability parameters other than sag, for example the threshold stress or the viscosity of the concrete. However, it may be advantageous to measure such rheological parameters in the case of fluid concretes that are likely to be pumped.
  • An object of the present invention is to overcome all or part of the disadvantages described above.
  • Another object of the present invention is to propose a method for controlling a workability parameter, in particular the slump, spreading, threshold stress, flow time and / or viscosity, of a concrete in the tank of a mixer with a non-vertical axis of rotation which does not depend on the fluidity of the concrete.
  • Another object of the present invention is that the process can be implemented for new concrete formulations without the need for additional adaptation operations.
  • the workability parameter of the concrete is chosen from among the slump, the spread, the threshold stress, the viscosity and the flow time.
  • the method comprises determining the threshold stress of the concrete from the evolution relationship and determining the sagging and / or spreading from the threshold stress.
  • the method comprises adjusting the reservoir of the workability parameter of the concrete by introducing a compound into the reservoir.
  • the compound comprises water, an adjuvant or a mixture thereof.
  • the provision of the indication of the parameter of workability of the concrete comprises displaying on a display screen the workability parameter, printing the workability parameter on a support and / or storing a data representative of the workability parameter in a memory.
  • the reservoir is rotated by a hydraulic motor comprising a hydraulic fluid receiving inlet and a hydraulic fluid discharge outlet, the torque being determined from a first difference. pressure equal to the difference between the hydraulic pressure measured at the inlet of the hydraulic motor and the hydraulic pressure measured at the output of the hydraulic motor.
  • the first pressure difference is reduced by a second difference in pressure equal to the difference between the hydraulic pressure at the inlet of the hydraulic motor and the hydraulic pressure at the outlet of the hydraulic motor. the absence of concrete in the tank at the speed of rotation of the measurement.
  • the hydraulic pressure measured at the inlet or the outlet of the hydraulic motor is equal to the average of a number of sampled pressure values, the said number being inversely proportional to the rotational speed. of the tank.
  • the variations in the speed of rotation of the reservoir are less than one threshold.
  • the present invention also provides a memory device on which is stored a computer program for implementing the method defined above.
  • the figure 1 represents an exemplary embodiment of a device 10 for controlling at least one workability parameter of a concrete according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.
  • a concrete is a mixture of aggregates agglomerated with a binder and water.
  • the hydraulic binder is a material that takes and hardens by hydration.
  • the hydraulic binder is a cement, in particular a Portland cement, for example a cement of CEM I, CEM II, CEM III, CEM IV or CEM V type according to European Standard NF EN 197-1 of February 2001.
  • the concrete may be a mixture of a hydraulic binder, aggregates, water, possibly adjuvants, and possibly mineral additions. These include, for example, high performance concrete, very high performance concrete, self-placing concrete, self-leveling concrete, self-compacting concrete, fiber concrete, ready-mixed concrete or colored concrete.
  • the term concrete includes mortars.
  • the concrete comprises a mixture of hydraulic binder, sand, water and optionally additives and possibly mineral additions.
  • the mineral additions are generally, for example, pozzolanic materials (for example as defined in the European standard NF EN 197-1 of February 2001 paragraph 5.2.3), silica fumes (for example as defined in the European standard NF EN 197-1 of February 2001 paragraph 5.2.7 or as defined in the "Concrete” standard prEN 13263: 1998 or NF P 18-502), slags (for example as defined in the European standard NF EN 197- 1 paragraph 5.2.2 or as defined in the "Concrete” standard NF P 18-506), calcined schists (for example as defined in the European standard NF EN 197-1 of February 2001 paragraph 5.2.5), materials containing calcium carbonate, for example limestone (for example as defined in the European standard NF EN 197-1 of February 2001 paragraph 5.2.6 or as defined in the "Concrete” standard NF P 18-508), siliceous additions (for example as defined in a "Concrete” standard NF P 18-509), metakaolins or their mixtures.
  • the binder can be a hydrocarbon binder, that is to say a substance composed of a hydrocarbon mixture, very viscous or solid at room temperature.
  • the hydrocarbon binder may, for example, be natural bitumen or crude bitumen derived from petroleum.
  • the concrete may be a mixture of a hydrocarbon binder and aggregates, such as, for example, bituminous concrete, gravel-asphalts, asphalt, or asphalt-based surface coatings.
  • a hydrocarbon-bonded concrete according to the invention may further comprise conventional additives, such as for example adhesives dopes or fibers (glass, cellulose or asbestos, for example).
  • a hydrocarbon-bonded concrete may further include recycled materials, such as roofing shingles, glass or cement concrete.
  • Aggregates include gravel, chippings and / or sand.
  • the sand corresponds to a granulate having a particle size strictly less than 4 mm.
  • the chippings correspond to aggregates having a particle size of 4 to 20 mm.
  • the gravel corresponds to aggregates having a particle size strictly greater than 20 mm.
  • the device 10 comprises a kneader 11 comprising a tank 12 in which a concrete 14 is placed.
  • the kneader 11 corresponds to a truck-spinner used to transport the concrete from a concrete manufacturing site to a concrete site of use.
  • the mixer 11 may be a stationary mixer with a non-vertical axis of rotation used for the manufacture of concrete.
  • the axis of the kneader is inclined relative to the horizontal direction by an angle less than or equal to 45 °.
  • the mixer 11 comprises a hydraulic motor 16 which rotates the reservoir 12 about a non-vertical axis ⁇ via a gearbox 18.
  • the ⁇ axis may be slightly inclined relative to the horizontal direction.
  • the volume V of concrete 14 in the tank 12 may vary from 0.5 m 3 to 8 m 3 , in some cases up to 15 m 3 .
  • the speed of rotation of the reservoir 12 around the axis ⁇ can be expressed in radians per second and is then noted ⁇ in the following description or be expressed in revolutions per minute and is then denoted N in the following description.
  • the speed of N rotation can vary from 1 rpm to 20 rpm per minute.
  • the speed of rotation of the tank 12 generally varies from 1 rpm to 6 rpm.
  • the speed of rotation of the tank 12 is generally greater than 6 rpm, and can reach 15 tr / min.
  • the hydraulic motor 16 may be actuated by the circulation of a hydraulic fluid by a hydraulic pump 20 connected to the hydraulic motor 16 by a pipe 22 for supplying the hydraulic fluid of the hydraulic pump 20 to the hydraulic motor 16 and by a pipe 24 for returning the hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic motor 16 to the hydraulic pump 20.
  • the hydraulic pump 20 can be rotated by a motor 21, for example the engine of the truck spindle.
  • the device 10 comprises a processing module 26, comprising, for example, a microcontroller, comprising a memory (MEM) 27.
  • the processing module 26 is connected to a human / machine interface 28 (HMI) comprising, for example, a screen display, a touch screen, a keyboard, etc.
  • HMI human / machine interface 28
  • the device 10 comprises a first hydraulic pressure sensor 30 adapted to measure the pressure of the hydraulic fluid upstream of the hydraulic motor 16.
  • the device 10 comprises a second hydraulic pressure sensor 32 adapted to measure the pressure of the hydraulic fluid downstream of the hydraulic motor. 16.
  • the sensors 30 and 32 are connected to the processing module 26.
  • An alternative may be to use a differential pressure sensor connected to the inlet and the outlet of the hydraulic motor 16.
  • the device 10 may furthermore comprise a speed sensor 34, connected to the processing module 26, measuring the speed of rotation of the tank 12. It may be a passive rotational speed sensor, in particular of the inductive type. , or an active rotation speed sensor, in particular of magnetoresistive or Hall effect type.
  • the device 10 may comprise a sensor 35 adapted to measure the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid flowing in the pipes 22 and / or 24, preferably in the pipe 22 at the inlet of the hydraulic motor 16.
  • the device 10 comprises a system 36 for adding water, an adjuvant or a mixture of adjuvants in the concrete 14.
  • the adjuvant or adjuvant mixture may be added to the water.
  • System 36 may include a vessel 37 containing water, adjuvant or adjutant mixture.
  • the tank 37 is connected to the tank 12 by a pipe 38 provided with a valve 40.
  • the valve 40 can be controlled by the treatment module 26.
  • it can be a compressed air valve , the actuation of the valve 40 being obtained by circulating compressed air under the control of the treatment module 26.
  • the system 36 may comprise a pump, not shown, connected to the tank 37.
  • the adjuvants may correspond to adjuvants added in the usual way in concretes, in particular a water reducer / plasticizer, a superplasticizer, a retarding agent, a setting accelerator, a thickening agent or a viscosity modifying agent.
  • the device 10 makes it possible to determine the final composition of the concrete, just before its use on site, with the various additions (in particular water, the adjuvant or the admixture mixture) and possibly the edition of this composition updated upon receipt of the concrete by the customer at the concrete site of use.
  • the figure 2 represents, in the form of a block diagram, an exemplary embodiment according to the invention of a method for controlling at least one workability parameter of a concrete.
  • the process comprises two steps 50 and 52.
  • the step 50 is to be carried out only once before the planned use of the mixer 11.
  • the step 52 can be implemented with each use of the Kneader 11. Step 52 may be repeated several times during use of the kneader 11.
  • Step 50 includes determining passage relationships G and T and step 52 comprises determining (and optionally adjusting) a workability parameter from the G and T passing relationships.
  • the workability parameter can be the slump, spread, threshold stress, flow time, or viscosity of a concrete.
  • the threshold stress of a concrete is the stress beyond which concrete begins to flow.
  • the shear stress ⁇ is expressed as a function of the velocity gradient ⁇ (or shear rate)
  • the threshold stress ⁇ 0 corresponds to the shear stress for a velocity gradient extrapolated to zero.
  • the apparent viscosity ⁇ of a concrete corresponds to the ratio between the shear stress ⁇ and the velocity gradient ⁇ . It is not always constant for a concrete but, in some cases, it can be constant.
  • the concrete present in the tank 12 can be considered as a Herschel-Bulkley fluid.
  • ⁇ ⁇ 0 + not p ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ where ⁇ p is the plastic viscosity of the concrete.
  • passage G and T are functions which are not constant and can depend in particular on the speed of rotation ⁇ .
  • the passage relations G and T depend only on the rotational speed ⁇ .
  • passage relations G and T can be expressed in the form of polynomials according to the following relationships (5) and (6):
  • G j and T j are real numbers and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
  • passage G and T depend on the characteristics of the kneader 11 but are independent of the formulations of the concretes likely to be arranged in the tank 12 of the kneader 11.
  • the method for determining the passage relations G and T is based on the following principle: two concretes for which it is measured the same shear stress ⁇ i for a given shear gradient ⁇ i develop, in the mixer 11, the same torque drive C i of the tank 12 of the mixer 11 for a given speed of rotation ⁇ i of the tank 12.
  • the figure 3 represents the evolution curves A and B of the driving torque C of the tank 12 as a function of the speed of rotation ⁇ of the tank 12 for two concretes of different formulations and the figure 4 represents the evolution curves D and E of the shear stress ⁇ as a function of the velocity gradient ⁇ for these two concretes.
  • the Curves A and B are determined using mixer 11.
  • Curves D and E are determined using a rheometer.
  • Curves A and B intersect at a point H i .
  • Curves D and E intersect at a point L i .
  • the two concretes have, in the reservoir 12, the same torque C i at the speed of rotation ⁇ i .
  • the two concretes have the same shear stress ⁇ i at the velocity gradient ⁇ i .
  • the two concretes are therefore in the same rheological state at the point L i and at the point H i , that is to say that they develop the same stress ⁇ i for the velocity gradient ⁇ i .
  • the method for determining the expressions of the passage relations G and T as a function of the speed of rotation ⁇ consists of determining the evolution curves of the driving torque C as a function of the speed of rotation ⁇ and the curves of evolution of the shear stress ⁇ as a function of the velocity gradient ⁇ for several concretes so as to obtain several crossing points H i and L i .
  • the figure 5 represents, by way of example, several curves F of evolution of the shear stress ⁇ as a function of the ⁇ speed gradient for six concretes of different formulations. These curves intersect at points of intersection L 1 to L 7 .
  • the relations of passages G and T can be sought, by way of example, in the form of the expressions (5) and (6) described previously by determining the parameters G j and T j for which the curves of the passage relations G and T pass by the values G i CC and T i CC or approach the best of these values according to interpolation or approximation methods. Once determined, the passage relations G and T are stored in the memory 27 of the processing module 26.
  • the passage relations G and T are determined from values G i Alt and T i Alt at the cross points of index i.
  • the relations of passages G and T can then be sought, by way of example, in the form of the expressions (5) and (6) described previously by determining the parameters G j and T j for which the curves of the transit relationships G and T go through the values G i Alt and T i Alt or approach the best of these values according to interpolation or approximation methods.
  • the second example of a method for determining the passage relations T and G has the advantage of being less sensitive to measurement uncertainties than the first example.
  • the Figures 6 and 7 represent two examples of evolution curves CG and CT respectively of the passage relations G and T.
  • FIG. 8 represents, in the form of a block diagram, a more detailed embodiment of the invention of step 52 of the method illustrated in FIG. figure 2 .
  • step 100 the mixer 11 is controlled at a first operating speed.
  • the processing module 26 determines a first value ⁇ P 1 of the pressure difference ⁇ P of the hydraulic fluid between the upstream and the downstream of the hydraulic motor 16 and a first value ⁇ 1 of the speed of rotation ⁇ of the tank 12.
  • the difference pressure ⁇ P of the hydraulic fluid between the upstream and downstream of the hydraulic motor 16 can be measured by the pressure sensors 30 and 32.
  • the rotational speed ⁇ of the reservoir 12 can be determined directly by the sensor 34 or indirectly from the measurement of the flow of the hydraulic fluid passing through the hydraulic motor 16. The method continues in step 102.
  • step 102 the mixer 11 is controlled at a second operating speed, different from the first operating speed. This means that the speed of rotation of the reservoir 12 at the first operating speed is different from the speed of rotation of the reservoir 12 at the second operating speed.
  • the processing module 26 determines a second value ⁇ P 2 of the pressure difference ⁇ P of the hydraulic fluid between the upstream and downstream of the hydraulic motor 16 and a second value ⁇ 2 of the rotation speed ⁇ . Steps 100 and 102 may be repeated several times for other operating speeds of the mixer 11.
  • the mixer 11 may, in addition, be controlled at a third operating speed, different from the first and second operating regimes. .
  • the processing module 26 determines a third value ⁇ P 3 of the pressure difference ⁇ P of the hydraulic fluid between the upstream and the downstream of the hydraulic motor 16 and a third value ⁇ 3 of the rotation speed ⁇ .
  • the process then continues at step 104.
  • Steps 100 and 102 can be implemented automatically or under a voluntary action of the driver of the truck-router. They can be implemented during the transport of concrete and / or preferably when the truck-router is stopped.
  • step 104 the processing module 26 determines values C 1 and C 2 of the torque C driving the reservoir 12 respectively from the values ⁇ P 1 and ⁇ P 2 of the pressure difference ⁇ P as will be described in more detail by the following.
  • the process continues at step 105.
  • the processing module 26 can, in addition, determine other additional values of the shear stress ⁇ and the shear gradient ⁇ , in addition to the first, second and third values mentioned above.
  • step 106 The process continues in step 106.
  • step 106 the processing module 26 determines the expression of the shear stress ⁇ as a function of the velocity gradient ⁇ from the pairs of values ( ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 1 ) and ( ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 2 ) (and preferably, furthermore, the pair of values ( ⁇ 3 , ⁇ 3 )).
  • the processing module 26 can search for the expression of ⁇ in the form of the expressions (1) or (2) by determining the parameters ⁇ 0 , k and p (or ⁇ p ) for which the curve of evolution of the shear stress ⁇ as a function of the velocity gradient ⁇ passes through the points ( ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 1 ) and ( ⁇ 2 , ⁇ 2 ) (and, preferably, in addition the point ( ⁇ 3 , ⁇ 3 )) or approaches the best of these values according to interpolation or approximation methods.
  • the process continues at step 108.
  • the processing module 26 determines the workability parameter or the workability parameters desired from the previous expression.
  • the threshold stress ⁇ 0 can be determined directly from the relation (1) or (2). Slumping or spreading of the concrete may be determined from the threshold stress ⁇ 0 .
  • the apparent viscosity ⁇ of the concrete corresponds to the ratio between the shear stress ⁇ and the speed gradient Y.
  • the processing module 26 may, in addition, control the interface 28 to display the measured workability parameter (s). In addition, the measured workability parameter (s) and the measurement time can be stored. The process continues at step 110.
  • step 110 the processing module 26 can control the addition in the concrete of water or admixtures to modify the measured workability parameter (s). Step 110 may not be present.
  • the pressures are determined from the pressure sensors 30 and 32.
  • the figure 9 represents an example of curve I of evolution of the signal supplied by the sensor 30 for several rotations of the tank 12.
  • the curve J represents the evolution of the signal supplied by the sensor 30 after a low-pass filtering operation.
  • the curve J may comprise oscillations during a revolution of the reservoir 12, which may in particular be due to defects in the equilibrium of the reservoir 12, to the nature of the concrete, etc.
  • the oscillation frequency substantially corresponds to the rotation frequency of the reservoir 12.
  • the measured pressure corresponds to an average pressure. It is advantageous for determine the average pressure, consider at least a complete revolution of the tank 12. This is why the number of successive sample frames used to determine the average pressure varies as a function of the rotation speed ⁇ of the tank 12.
  • the samples are considered stable when, for each sample measured among the number of samples, the rotation speed N of the tank 12 varies little with respect to an average rotational speed for the number of samples, for example less than 1 rpm compared to the average rotation speed for the number of sample frames.
  • the average pressure is measured only when the samples are stable.
  • the signal supplied by the sensor 30 is noted P e and the output signal of the hydraulic motor 16 obtained from the sensor 32 is noted P s .
  • the differential pressure ⁇ P is equal to the difference between the inlet pressure P e and the outlet pressure P s .
  • the average value of the differential pressure is obtained by averaging the values of the differential pressure ⁇ P of the set of samples of the number of samples.
  • the displacement C y expressed in m 3 / rev, corresponds to the volume of hydraulic fluid which passes through the engine hydraulic 16 during a revolution of the hydraulic motor 16.
  • the driving torque C can be determined by replacing in the expression (23) the pressure difference ⁇ P by the inlet pressure P e .
  • the inventors have demonstrated that the accuracy of the determination of the driving torque C is increased by using the pressure difference ⁇ P rather than only the inlet pressure P e .
  • the drive torque C that is to be measured must be as accurately as possible representative of the behavior of the concrete and not other parameters such as for example the friction between the reservoir 12 and the reservoir support system 12 or the mass. of the tank 12 empty.
  • the inventors have furthermore demonstrated that the accuracy of the determination of the driving torque C is increased by using the corrected differential pressure ⁇ P - ⁇ P 0 rather than the differential pressure ⁇ P alone.
  • the figure 10 represents, in the form of a block diagram, an exemplary embodiment of step 110 of the method illustrated in FIG. figure 8 in the case where, in step 108, the method provides a sag value and in the case where the sag is adjusted by adding water to the concrete.
  • This adjustment method can also be used for control of spreading, flow time, viscosity, or threshold stress.
  • step 200 the processing module 26 determines the last value S k of the slump.
  • the last sag value S k may correspond, for example, to the average of last sag values, for example the last five sag values, obtained in step 108.
  • the process continues in step 202 .
  • step 202 the processing module 26 determines the difference ⁇ S between a comparison subsidence value Se and the last subsidence value S k . If the difference ⁇ S is greater than a threshold TH, the process continues in step 204. If the difference ⁇ S is lower than the threshold TH, the process returns to step 200.
  • Threshold TH reflects sag variation which is acceptable. Typically for ordinary concrete, the threshold TH may be of the order of 30 mm.
  • step 204 the processing module 26 determines the amount of water (Addition) to be added.
  • Tx water is the amount of water to be added per cubic meter of concrete and per millimeter of sag variation
  • K s is a safety factor
  • V is the volume of concrete.
  • the quantity of water Tx water is, for example, between 0.1 L / m 3 / mm and 3 L / m 3 / mm and the safety factor K s is for example between 0 and 1.
  • the method is continues at step 206.
  • the treatment module 26 determines the total amount of water added (Water tot ) to the concrete since the concrete is placed in the tank 12.
  • the total amount of water added Water tot corresponds to the sum successive additions already made since the placement of concrete in the tank 12, the addition of water (addition) calculated in the previous step and not yet achieved, and the amount of water initially introduced into the concrete before loading into the tank.
  • the total amount of water (Water tot ) is compared to a maximum amount of water (Max) that can enter into the composition of said concrete. If the amount of water Water tot is strictly greater than Max, the process continues in step 208. If the amount of water Water tot is less than or equal to Max, the process continues in step 212.
  • step 208 the processing module 26 sends an alarm, for example to the driver of the truck-router, via the interface 28.
  • step 212 the processing module 26 determines whether the addition of the quantity of water (addition) must be carried out automatically. If the amount of water (Add) is to be added automatically, the process proceeds to step 214. If the amount of water (Add) should not be added automatically, the process continues in step 216.
  • step 216 the processing module 26 waits for a manual validation to be carried out, for example, by the driver of the truck spindle, by means of the interface 28.
  • a manual validation for example, by the driver of the truck spindle, by means of the interface 28.
  • the process continues in step 214. If in step 216 manual validation is not performed, the method returns to step 200.
  • step 214 the amount of water (Addition) is added in the tank 12. This can be done by the control of the valve 40 by the treatment module 26. The process continues in step 218.
  • step 218 the process waits for a specified time, for example 5 minutes, for the added water to mix well with the concrete, before returning to step 200.
  • the method may further include displaying information about the concrete on the display screen 28, printing the information on a medium, or storing the information in a memory.
  • This information may include the workability parameter determined in step 200, the amount of water and / or adjuvant added to the concrete at step 214 or the formulation of the modified concrete after the addition of water and / or adjuvant.
  • control method according to the invention implemented by the processing module 26 can be realized by hardware, that is to say by a dedicated electronic circuit.
  • the control method according to the invention can be implemented at least in part by the execution by the processing module 26 of instructions of a computer program for example stored in the memory 27.
  • the control method according to the invention advantageously makes it possible to determine a workability parameter when the concrete is in the mixer with a non-vertical axis of rotation. It also makes it possible to obtain a measurement of the parameter of workability which is more representative of the state of the concrete than the measurement that would be obtained from a test using a sample of a small volume of the concrete relative to the total volume contained in the mixer with axis of rotation non-vertical.
  • the present invention has been described in the case where the engine torque is determined from hydraulic pressure measurements, it is clear that the present invention can be implemented in the case where the engine torque is measured directly. by a torque sensor, comprising, for example, strain gages.
  • a torque sensor comprising, for example, strain gages.
  • the present invention has been described in the case of a non-vertical rotation shaft mixer whose reservoir is rotated by a hydraulic motor, it can be implemented in the case where the reservoir is rotated by a heat engine or an electric motor via a mechanical speed reduction system.
  • the motor torque can then be measured by any suitable means.
  • the engine torque can be determined from a measurement of the power supply current of the electric motor.

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